Thanks for the link. Cropped out the rest of your post cause it was tough to find this without reading all that since I haven't seen it yet Appreciate it though!
great episode!!! loved it after a semi-slow start for just a little bit anyone know what the rest of the joke is in the deleted scene? Meredith's words are bleeped out. Sounds like "b/c Roy used his c**k..." and I got nothin after that
Actually Michael states something similar in his rant, might be a cleverly planted idoit savant moment, maybe.... Great episode! Loved the bat and Angela's stop drop and roll had me rolling!
Hey guys does anyone know any new sites to stream shows? Findthatshow and the other ones that were listed before don't really work anymore. I'm trying to find Scrubs, Full Metal Alchemist, and The Office episodes... but can't find it anywhere. Torrents are way too slow for me.
Of course some of you panty wearing JAM lovers like this episode. Roy is proving to be a goof again and Pam is backing off. This one didn't do it for me like the other recent shows. I did like the vampire bit, but I will have to say I enjoyed Michael coming to Pam's rescue after her horrible art show experience. "Is there something in your pocket?"
strangely enough, michael and pam at the art show, a scene with no real comedy until right at the end, might be my favorite office scene yet. michael seemingly genuinely happy to come to be there for pam's night, realizing when he showed up that he would like the paintings and make pam feel better and then it happening, him being all defiantly proud of the company ryan and the class just trashed in a way only michael can be (that is our building....and we make paper), pam crying and saying "thank you." it was actually really touching in a way you don't expect from the office. at least not going on for as long as it did. maybe it's just because i like pam (the more plain they make her, the more i want her) so her being happy is good, or it's just nice to see michael as a normal person every once in a while (i know he has to be crazy or he's not michael and you couldn't appreciate the normal michael w/o the crazy michael anyway), but it was still a quality scene. and then bringing a little office back into it with "unless you had a camera" right at the end. it's almost sad watching the 4 nbc thursday comedies all in a row now b/c i'm so sure it won't last much longer. this is the type of lineup that should hold it down for like 5 years (minus Scrubs since it's ending next year at the latest) but we'll be lucky if it's even back next year. damn you America for not watching these shows more!
i agree with you...i thought that was great. Michael "got" her art in a way that Roy never can. and she knows that. and in light of the comments about her work being "motel art" that didn't mean anything. the second try with Roy won't last long.
i guess the scene worked really well also just because they both needed a pick me up and both unexpectedly did it for each other. pam painting the building got michael all choked up about what he does and that got pam all choked up to see michael so happy about what she did. it just worked really well and it's little scenes like that that give you little glimpses into the characters that make the show so great. i'm also really starting to like karen after the karaoke and helping out on the vampire prank and the way she flew under her desk when the bat got loose. she seems more fun than before. which makes you feel worse knowing that jim will obviously eventually leave her. does anyone know what any of these actors get paid? i mean people like stanley and creed might go the whole episode with only one line and there are so many people at the office that they can hardly keep them all involved. considering the show isn't a huge ratings success, are any of them really getting big paydays at this point? no, but 30 rock seems to have about 5 people watching it each week and even though the nbc president (or some higher up) said it would probably come back next season, it's obviously on thin ice. continued floundering might get it pulled mid-season even if it comes back next year. baldwin winning that one award will certainly help though. and if 30 rock goes and scrubs goes, they might break it all up or replace it with some reality crap. being a natural pessimist, i'm afraid my favorite primetime lineup in a while will be short-lived.
30 Rock (and Scrubs) are going up against Grey's Anatomy AND CSI... both top 3-4 viewed shows. NBC knows this, and they aren't going to simply look at only ratings to justify whether or not a show is good enough to find an audience. There is no show they can put on the air in that time-slot that will get good ratings... they might be able to move an already successful show to that slot (maybe Heroes?), but it still would suffer (ratings-wise). If ABC had attempted to put Grey's Anatomy on Thursday (when it first started), they would have been slaughtered by CSI. BUt, alas, they found their audience on Sunday (after DH), and the audience followed when it moved to Thursday.
The Office is making good money for NBC. It's one of the top iTunes downloads every week. That was what made the NBC brass give this show a longer leash, even after it's so-so ratings in the first season. How iTunes saved 'The Office' http://www.newsday.com/entertainmen...04591.column?coll=ny-entertainment-columnists November 1, 2006 It takes a lot of love to download a TV show on iTunes. The process is time-consuming (10 minutes or so for a sitcom). The screen image - by necessity - is ant-sized. The picture gets the yips. And worst of all, the thing hogs a vast chunk of memory. And, for what? A repeat. Yet the basic fact remains. iTunes has saved "The Office." A year ago, the show was about to suffer the fate of a hundred thousand other shows that labored under the tyranny of Nielsen: It was about to get the ax. And then something providential happened. ABC cut a deal with iTunes' new TV service, and a few hours later, NBC followed. "The Office" was an immediate iTunes hit. While neither Apple nor NBC release numbers (a million total monthly downloads for all TV shows is one estimate), "The Office" now reigns as the "Seinfeld" of iTunes. While it recently ceded the top spot to "Lost," most weeks the great NBC comedy is the single most downloaded program. "I'm not sure that we'd still have the show on the air" without the iTunes boost, says Angela Bromstead, president of NBC Universal Television Studio, which owns and produces "The Office." "The network had only ordered so many episodes, but when it went on iTunes and really started taking off, that gave us another way to see the true potential other than just Nielsen. It just kind of happened at a great time." "The Office" went on to win a richly deserved Best Comedy Emmy last August, and along with "My Name Is Earl," will be the only scripted NBC show in the 8 p.m. block that won't be rudely shoved aside by cheapo game or reality shows next fall. iTunes not only saved "The Office," but probably "30 Rock" as well. Another relatively mediocre Nielsen performer, "30 Rock" is expected to be a big iTunes seller. ("Scrubs" and "Rock" move to the 9 p.m. Thursday block later this month.) Anniversaries are a time to take stock, and one of the most important of the decade falls in a few weeks. When the networks (CBS followed quickly, too) signed those dramatic deals with iTunes last fall, no one had a clue what would happen. They have clues now. iTunes has saved shows, driven new viewers to the networks and their Web sites, and even changed the way shows are produced. Of necessity, some TV producers - maybe even all of them - now actively ponder (or eagerly anticipate) their afterlife on iTunes. A complex serial such as "Jericho" too much to catch on CBS week after week? No problem. Buy the iTunes version. A few editions of "Jericho," in fact, hit the prestigious iTunes top 50 list last week. Ah, yes: the top 50. iTunes posts the most popular purchases every day, and the running chart has emerged as a shadow world to Nielsen's ratings charts. The former chart feels dynamic and cutting-edge, and maybe even a true reflection of what people - at least obsessive, primarily male ones - are watching. The latter feels old-world - a fuzzy reflection of a couch-potato nation. iTunes has almost certainly saved other shows, too, or at least given them a lease on life. NBC recently ordered more scripts for "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip." Would that have happened if "Studio" didn't have just the slightest traction on iTunes? (Four episodes placed recently in the iTunes top 50.) Probably not. Also intriguing is what doesn't sell well. Nielsen hits such as "CSI: Miami" or "NCIS" are no-shows in the top 50. "The Simpsons?" Nada (even though "Prison Break" is a stalwart). What does any of this mean? Who knows - except, perhaps that serials and guy-oriented shows are the biggest beneficiaries of the iTunes effect. Paul Lieberstein, one of "The Office's" executive producers (who also plays human resources manager Toby) says that when the iTunes effect kicked in last December, "it was this huge gift that made everyone kind of go 'Wait, what's going on with that show?'" Ever since then, "The Office" has paid almost as much attention to iTunes as to NBC. For example, "because people are watching more than once, it's become one more reason for us to to be very careful to include subtle things as well as broad physical stuff," Lieberstein says. The iTunes effect hasn't hurt in attracting big-name directors either; Harold Ramis will direct an hour-long episode to air around Christmas, while "Lost's" J.J. Abrams is on board for a February one. NBC's Bromstead says of "The Office," "it's a very important asset to us as a studio, so ... even if doesn't turn into a traditional network hit, or a blockbuster, we'll accept that as well."
Wow, the Jim/Pam stuff was NOT what made this episode awesome. It was the bat stuff (dwight finding it, angela rolling, meredith bag, creed tools), michael in the car, michael/ryan in class, michale/pam scene, vampire bit So much hilarity whether you care about the fact that Roy looked like a chump or not. And even if you don't like that, you still got "your art was the prettiest art of all the art" when he thought he had to say something good to get her in bed that night. how can you not love that smoooooth line? hahaha
that's true, but at the end of the day i trust networks to be less patient and not more. they will mess around with stuff, change time slots, cancel shows, etc more often than they will give something a chance in my experience. they don't just wanna accept a distant distant 3rd place, they'll think they have the new CSI or grey's anatomy and try to at least compete with them. moving heroes to thursday would seem somewhat logical since it seems to have a pretty big dedicated audience that it wouldn't lose easily. and maybe getting 30 rock out from under their shadow would help it get an audience (or kill it like time slot changes often do). either way, i fear the change will come and, even if they're all 4 still around, i won't have my thursday night block for long.
Good night Mary Beth! Michael has redeemed himself for a few episodes, now. That last scene was great.
At the top of this page, I posted quoting m_cable's link to the torrent.. I didn't find anything streaming, either
Very funny episode...Just finished watching it last night...The bat in a bag as hilarious...Michael at b-school was classic...I also liked it when Pam asked Michael, "Do you have something in your pocket"...
